BOSTON—Technology and aging should go together and result in great things, said Joseph Coughlin, PhD, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab, who spoke at the ninth Annual Connected Health Symposium on Oct. 25.

CHICAGO—With more than 30 Health Level 7 affiliates, it’s an international effort to update healthcare standards, said R. Lenel James, MBA, senior project director at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and member of Health Level 7’s Electronic and Personal Health Record Work Groups, speaking at the 84th American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) Conference & Exhibition.

CHICAGO—The goals of Meaningful Use are supposed to be accomplished through the use of the EHR to encode, structure and communicate data with providers and systems, according to speakers on a session about standard terminology challenges at the 84th American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) Conference & Exhibition.

CHICAGO--Rural hospitals are struggling more than other facilities to achieve expected levels of Meaningful Use over the next few years, according to a panel of speakers at the American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) 84th Annual Conference & Exhibition.